EU Justice and Home Affairs

Jacob Rees-Mogg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  how many joint investigation teams including the UK have been set up in each of the last five years as a result of Article 3 of Council Decision 2005/671/JHA; and what the aims, activities and achievements of each of these teams were;
	(2)  what measures the UK has taken to implement Article 4 of Council Decision 2005/61/JHA; how many requests in each of the last five years the UK has (a) received and (b) sent that have been dealt with under this Article; what the decision was on each such request; how much quicker she estimates each such request was dealt with compared to if this Decision had not applied; and what assessment she has made of the effect in these matters if the UK ceases to be bound by this Decision pursuant to Article 10 of the Protocol on Transitional Provisions annexed to the EU treaties;
	(3)  how many times information has been provided (a) by and (b) to the UK as a result of Article 2(6) of Council Decision 2005/671/JHA in each of the last five years; and what assessment she has made of how useful this exchange has been to the UK and the other EU member states concerned;
	(4)  how many times information has been provided to Europol by UK authorities as a result of Article 2 of Council Decision 2005/671/JHA in each of the last five years; and what use this information has been put to in each case;
	(5)  how many times information has been provided to Eurojust by UK authorities as a result of Article 2 of Council Decision 2005/671/JHA in each of the last five years; and what use this information has been put to in each case;
	(6)  whether the Government intends to maintain unchanged the co-operation and information exchange with other EU member states established by Council Decision 2005/671/JHA if the UK ceases to be bound by that Decision pursuant to Article 10 of the Protocol on Transitional Provisions annexed to the EU treaties; how any such co-operation and information exchange would be maintained; and what assessment she has made of whether this would be at least as efficacious as UK participation in the Decision;
	(7)  what the cost to the public purse has been in each of the last five years of UK participation in Council Decision 2005/671/JHA;
	(8)  what requirements of Council Decision 2005/671/JHA the UK (a) has and (b) has not implemented;
	(9)  in which instances information which is currently exchanged as a result of Council Decision 2005/671/JHA would no longer be exchanged if the UK ceases to be bound by that Decision pursuant to Article 10 of the Protocol on Transitional Provisions annexed to the EU treaties.

James Brokenshire: The UK has fully implemented this Decision. No legislation was required to do so.
	The UK has neither established nor been part of any joint investigation teams established under Article 3 of this Decision. The UK conducts Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) pursuant to Council Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA.
	That measure is included in the set of measures that the Government has indicated it will seek to rejoin in the UK's national interest as part of our decision to opt out of pre-Lisbon EU police and criminal justice measures.
	Information on the number of requests received and sent in each of the last five years pursuant to Article 4 is not held centrally. Nor is information on the number of times information has been provided by and for the UK as a result of Article 2(6) in each of the last five years.
	Information on the number of times information has been provided to Europol by UK authorities as a result of Article 2 in each of the last five years is not available centrally. Nor is information provided to Eurojust by UK authorities as a result of this Article held centrally.
	Information on the cost to the public purse for participation in this Council Decision in each of the last five years is not held centrally.
	The UK co-operates bilaterally with other member states on counter terrorism and will continue to do so irrespective of participation in this measure. The Government believes that alternatives will be at least as efficacious as participation in this Decision. The Government has assessed that there are no impediments to exchanging information bilaterally, if required.
	As the UK has opted out of the all pre-Lisbon police and criminal justice measure and Council Decision 2005/671/JHA is not one of the measures which we will seek to rejoin in the national interest, it is important to note that on 1 December 2014 that the UK will be free to change domestic law and practice if required. In the meantime, the Government will retain unchanged existing UK law and practice.
	(9) whether the Government intends to retain unchanged existing provisions of UK law and practice required by Council Decision 2005/671/JHA, if the UK ceases to be bound by that Decision pursuant to Article 10 of the Protocol on Transitional Provisions annexed to the EU treaties;